Touch Screen Mixing?

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:15 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs

soundsun · Post by **soundsun** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:32 pm

VERY COOL! Sort of like Lemur's big brother.

http://www.cycling74.com/products/lemur

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:42 pm

I want it. Now.

Shooshie

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:35 pm

Apple does too:
And check out the "Prior Art" link.
http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/51/apple-mul ... uchscreen/

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:20 pm

I think about a multi-point touch screen every time I use the mixing board. That would be the end of control surfaces. Just set the screen up close and get busy. Man, that's the direction this stuff has got to go.

Shooshie

Astia · Post by **Astia** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:21 am

I recommend also checking out this:
http://www.mackie.com/products/digitalxbus/index.html

The touch screens work great

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:45 am

Yeah at Dxb Prices. LOL

I want one I want one......

dave pine · Post by **dave pine** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:10 am

>>>25 years in this business and counting.....Loving every minute of it..... <<<

you'd love it even more with a dxb....and a small mortgage

sk · Post by sk » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:16 am

I emailed MOTU Tech Support about this 2 years ago and never heard anything back from them. For a portable laptop rig having touchscreen capability would be a big help (although the buttons and sliders may be small!). There are hundreds of manufacturers out there who make reasonably-priced touchscreen overlays but I haven't tried any of them with DP yet. Here are a few random ones if anyone would like to be a guinea pig:

http://www.touchwindow.com/miva/merchan ... y_Code=ATS
http://www.enablemart.com/productdetail ... 29&dept=12
http://www.enablemart.com/productdetail ... =8&dept=12

Scott

HLStudios · Post by **HLStudios** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:40 am

This is amazing. cannot wait to get my fingers on that.

rockitcity · Post by **rockitcity** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:10 am

There was a post-production house in LA a few years ago that made a touch sensitive controller called the "glass console" for Pro Tools. It consisted of a large touch-sensitive display and motorized moving faders. While I never worked on it, the resolution was quite large to fit the display channel strips over the faders. Also , the glow of the display was constantly on the mixer's faces. Being a glass surface, sound reflection was less than optimum as well from the mixer position. They used them for a couple of years, but I believe they were prohibitively expensive to market, especially with the advent of Digi's Pro Control around the same time.

So, while it was an interesting concept, I think actual knobs and faders are a more desireable mixing solution in a control surface. Now, someone could crack Digi's ethernet control protocol to be able to use a Control 24 or D-Command with DP, that would be a rockin' controller!